The University Press of Mississippi was founded in 1970 and is supported by Mississippi's eight state universities. UPM publishes scholarly books of the highest distinction and books that interpret the South and its culture to the nation and the world. From its offices in Jackson, the University Press of Mississippi acquires, edits, distributes, and promotes more than eighty new books every year. Over the years, the Press has published more than 1000 titles and distributed more than 2,600,000 copies worldwide, each with the Mississippi imprint.
Dancing Man
A Broadway Choreographer's Journey
The ultimate insider’s scoop on the most popular shows in Broadway history
Cuba hasta siempre
An award-winning photographer’s vivid images of the island country
The Possible South
Documentary Film and the Limitations of Biraciality
How documentary film explodes common discourses of a South divided only by black and white
The Last Seat in the House
The Story of Hanley Sound
A history of the first sound engineer to jam sprawling festivals and rock whole stadiums
Subversive Spirits
The Female Ghost in British and American Popular Culture
How some women find their greatest powers narrating after death
Southern Literature, Cold War Culture, and the Making of Modern America
A thorough exploration of the South’s lasting impact on American life
Professional Wrestling
Sport and Spectacle, Second Edition
Timely updates to the first book to look at professional wrestling as a theatrical performance
How the Other Half Laughs
The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920
A much-needed examination of how the newspaper comic strip transformed US culture
Graphic Novels as Philosophy
How graphic novels expand philosophy and how philosophy illuminates the graphic novel
Conversations with William T. Vollmann
Collected interviews with the writer of fiction, journalism, ethnography, and history whose book, Europe Central, won the National Book Award for Fiction
Claude Chabrol
Interviews
Collected interviews with the French director of influential New Wave films such as Le Beau Serge, Les Cousins, and Les Bonnes Femmes
Blake Edwards
Interviews
A long-overdue collection of interviews with the multitalented and versatile writer, director, and producer of such films as Days of Wine and Roses, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Victor/Victoria, and the Pink Panther franchise
Animating the Spirited
Journeys and Transformations
How anime and animation involve and transport viewers to be spirited away
Truth and Consequences
Game Shows in Fiction and Film
A critical study on how the dynamics of game shows are impacting America’s culture
The Supervillain Reader
A fascinating exploration of the history, politics, and aesthetics of supervillains
The New Territory
Ralph Ellison and the Twenty-First Century
A critical advancement and recognition of the enduring power of a great American writer
The Comics of Alison Bechdel
From the Outside In
The first critical volume on a crucial voice in comics
The Bad Sixties
Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements
An exposure of how mainstream film and television wilts flower power and diffuses the potency of protest
Martin R. Delany's Civil War and Reconstruction
A Primary Source Reader
A documentary history of a radical thinker and African American firebrand
Martin R. Delany's Civil War and Reconstruction
A Primary Source Reader
A documentary history of a radical thinker and African American firebrand